A study undertaken by a fourteen member consortium representing five schools each of medicine, dentistry, and nursing had as its objectives to: (1) generate, assess and collectively approve a comprehensive list of teaching skills and strategies that approximates observed and representative behaviors in clinical sciences teaching in medicine, dentistry and nursing; (2) conduct a national state-of-the-art assessment of clinical teaching through a national survey of dental, medical and nursing schools; (3) develop a real model description and an ideal model for each of the disciplines; (4) develop strategies for the resolution of discrepancies in these models, i.e., formulate a method(s) for the institutions to increase their faculties in clinical teaching; and (5) recommend a strategy for the institutions to improve clinical teaching. The procedures and phases developed to accomplish the study's goals are presented. Appendices contain statistical data and report on areas such as: survey return data; item means and standard deviations; summary of description data; and factor analysis statistics. A monograph, "The Comprehensive Report," will follow this report and contain a summary of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations. (LC)